EP0486175B1 - Vorrichtung für die Kopplung eines Vielfachlaseremitters an Multimodefasern - Google Patents
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- EP0486175B1 EP0486175B1 EP91309864A EP91309864A EP0486175B1 EP 0486175 B1 EP0486175 B1 EP 0486175B1 EP 91309864 A EP91309864 A EP 91309864A EP 91309864 A EP91309864 A EP 91309864A EP 0486175 B1 EP0486175 B1 EP 0486175B1
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- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
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- G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
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- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
- H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
- H01S3/09—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping
- H01S3/091—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping
- H01S3/094—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light
- H01S3/0941—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light of a laser diode
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- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
- H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
- H01S3/09—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping
- H01S3/091—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping
- H01S3/094—Processes or apparatus for excitation, e.g. pumping using optical pumping by coherent light
- H01S3/094049—Guiding of the pump light
- H01S3/094053—Fibre coupled pump, e.g. delivering pump light using a fibre or a fibre bundle
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
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- H01S5/40—Arrangement of two or more semiconductor lasers, not provided for in groups H01S5/02 - H01S5/30
- H01S5/4012—Beam combining, e.g. by the use of fibres, gratings, polarisers, prisms
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
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- H01S5/40—Arrangement of two or more semiconductor lasers, not provided for in groups H01S5/02 - H01S5/30
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- the present invention relates to lasers. More specifically, the present invention pertains to laser diodes and coupling of laser diodes to multimode optical fibers.
- a laser diode it is often necessary to couple a laser diode to a multimode optical fiber.
- the standard procedure is to butt cpuple the laser diode to the optical fiber, placing the optical fiber as close as possible to the emitting face of the laser diode.
- the output from a typical laser diode has very high angular divergence in the direction perpendicular to the diode junction, having a typical numerical aperture (NA) of 0.4 to 0.6.
- the numerical aperture is the sine of the half angle of the diode emission.
- the NA in the direction parallel to the junction is much smaller, typically 3 times less.
- a multimode optical fiber In order to couple efficiently to a laser diode, a multimode optical fiber must have an acceptance angle or NA comparable to the NA of the laser diode.
- a multimode optical fiber ideal for coupling to a laser diode would have an NA of 0.3 or above.
- Such a multimode optical fiber is somewhat difficult to design since it requires a cladding having a very low index of refraction.
- the end of the optical fiber must be placed very close to the diode facet to which it is to be coupled. Accurately achieving such placement requires very tight mechanical tolerances and can lead to practical fabrication problems due to optical feedback to the laser diode.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a convenient means of coupling a low NA multimode optical fiber to a laser diode.
- the resulting low NA fiber output can have high brightness, where brightness is defined as W/cm 2 /unit solid angle.
- FR-A-2 365 750 and US-A-4,079,404 each disclose a substrate for positioning transmission optical fibers relative to an additional optical fiber that functions as a cylindrical lens for coupling each transmission fibre with a respective laser diode, which abuts the cylindrical lens.
- US-A-4 890 289 discloses a solid state laser that is optically pumped by radiation from a laser diode bank, the radiation being transmitted from the diode bank to the laser via an optical fiber bundle.
- a microlens such as a small diameter multimode optical fiber is used to collimate the output emissions of a laser diode bar before butt coupling the output of the laser diode bar to optical fibers.
- the optical fiber used as the microlens lens is chosen such that its diameter roughly equals the diameter of the fiber to be coupled to each laser diode of the bar. The collimation is performed in the high NA direction of the output of each laser diode.
- the diameter of the butt coupled fiber is preferably chosen to be 20 to 50% bigger than the lateral dimension of the laser diode of the diode array.
- the diameter of the collimating microlens is then chosen to be roughly equal to this diameter.
- the NA of the butt coupled fiber is chosen to be roughly equal to the low NA direction of the diode, typically 0.1 to 0.2.
- the microlens and the butt coupled end of the fiber may be anti-reflection coated to reduce reflections off these surfaces.
- the microlens is oriented so as to collimate the high numerical aperture direction of the laser diode output.
- the butt coupled fiber may be rectangular in shape so as to reduce the total amount of glass in the fiber.
- the width of the fiber is chosen to be slightly larger (about 20-50% larger) than the diode emitting area.
- the height is chosen to be as small as possible, typically around 30 to 50 microns.
- the diameter of the microlens should then be chosen to be approximately equal to the height of rectangle.
- the arrangement of the present invention for precollimation of a laser diode bar is achieved in one embodiment by extending the fiber precollimating lens along the length of the bar.
- An array of fibers, with spacing matching the diode separation on the bar, may be butt coupled to the diode bar resulting in very high efficiency coupling of diode bars to fiber arrays.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an arrangement according to the present invention for coupling the output from a laser diode bar into an optical fiber bundle.
- FIG. 2 is graph showing the output power from a fiber bundle as a function of the input power to the fiber bundle in a system using the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention used as a pump source for a laser system.
- the butt-coupled fiber may be located further away from the diode laser (it can now be spaced several hundred microns from the laser diode emitting surface) thus reducing the mechanical tolerances of the assembly.
- the microlens is cylindrical in cross section.
- cross sectional shapes such as elliptical and hyperbolic, could prove to be useful in the present invention for correction of particular spherical aberrations as is known in the art, i.e. Kingsdale, Lens Design Fundamentals, Academic Press 1978.
- the prior art arrangement for coupling the output of laser diode bar having a plurality of emitters into a plurality of optical fibers which may be part of a fiber bundle includes placing the end of each optical fiber very close to the diode facet to which it is to be coupled because the energy emitted from the laser diode diverges rapidly. Accurate placement of the fiber end relative to the laser diode requires very tight mechanical tolerances and thus leads to practical fabrication problems.
- the output from a typical laser diode has very high angular divergence in the direction perpendicular to the diode junction, having a typical NA of 0.5 to 0.6.
- the NA in the direction parallel to the junction is much smaller, typically 3 times less.
- a multimode optical fiber having an NA to ideally match the laser diode output would require a cladding having a very low index of refraction. It is difficult to produce such a fiber.
- the present invention solves these practical problems and provides a solution which avoids the critical placement problems of the prior art arrangement, and allows utilization of readily available multimode optical fibers.
- an arrangement according to the present invention for coupling the radiation emitted from laser diode bar 10, having a plurality of emitters 12, 14, and 16, into multimode optical fibers 18, 20, and 22, which may be part of an optical fiber bundle 24 includes placing a microlens 26 in between the emitting facets of emitters 12, 14, and 16, and the ends of multimode optical fibers 18, 20 and 22.
- a distance of approximately 60 microns from the near edge of the microlens to the diode facet is satisfactory for a 250 micron diameter fiber having an index of refraction of 1.5.
- the optimal spacing of the optical fiber end from the microlens should be as small as possible.
- the diameter of the optical fiber to be coupled is typically chosen to be 20 to 50% bigger than the lateral dimension of the laser diode of diode array.
- the optical fiber is chosen to be approximately 250 microns in diameter.
- the diameter of microlens 26 is chosen to be roughly equal to the diameter of the optical fiber to be coupled.
- the diameter of microlens 26 may be chosen to be less than the diameter of the optical fiber to be coupled without loss in coupling efficiency. However, if such smaller microlens diameters are used, the alignment of the microlens will be made more difficult.
- Microlens 26 must be carefully placed with respect to the output facets of the laser diode bar in order to properly collimate them. This is accomplished by carefully aligning the microlens and securing it in place with a suitable epoxy such as Tra-Bond BB-2151 available from Tra-Con in Medford Mass.
- the NA of the optical fiber to be coupled is chosen to be roughly equal to the low NA direction of the diode, typically 0.1 to 0.15. This combination of microlens and optical fiber results in greater than 80% coupling of the laser diode emitted energy into the multimode optical fiber.
- the microlens and the butt coupled end of the fiber may be anti-reflection coated to reduce reflections from these surfaces.
- the optical fibers 18, 20, and 22 may be rectangular in cross section so as to reduce the total amount of glass in the fiber.
- the width of such a rectangular fiber is preferably chosen to be slightly bigger than the diode emitting area.
- the height is chosen to be as small as possible, typically around 30 to 50 microns. Heights smaller than 30 to 50 microns may be used but make alignment difficult.
- the diameter of the microlens 26 is then preferably chosen to equal the height of the rectangle, 30 to 50 microns in the example given. The resulting fiber output is brighter since the total emission area is smaller.
- the arrangement of the present invention for precollimation of a laser diode bar containing a plurality of laser diode emitters consists of extending the microlens 26 along the length of the bar to intercept the output radiation from the multiple emitters along the length of the bar.
- An array of optical fibers, with spacing matching the diode separation on the bar, can be efficiently butt coupled to the laser diode bar 10, resulting in very high coupling of diode bars to fiber arrays.
- each emitter having a 200 micron wide emission region, available from Spectra Diode Labs of San Jose, California, were coupled to a fiber array including 10 optical fibers, each having a 250 micron diameter and an output NA of 0.11, by use of a 250 micron diameter optical fiber lens spaced approximately 50 microns from the emitting surfaces of the diodes and about 300 microns from the ends of the optical fibers.
- the overall coupling efficiency of this arrangement was measured at about 90% as shown by the graph of FIG. 2.
- the output diameter of the resulting fiber bundle is about 1 mm and the NA is 0.11. If smaller diameter emission regions are needed (for example, 0.33 mm, to pump a solid state laser) then the emitting face of the fiber optic bundle can be demagnified by using a simple high NA lens, as will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art, to suitably reduce the diameter of the image of the output of the fiber bundle.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating how the present invention may be used as a pump source for a solid state laser, although those of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the present invention is adaptable for pumping other kinds of laser systems in other manners without departing from the concept of the invention.
- a bar 30 of doped solid state laser material and an output coupler 32 form a laser cavity 34.
- the end of laser cavity 34 may be a highly reflective coating on the face of the bar 30.
- An imaging lens 40, having a focal length f, is placed in the optical path of radiation from the optical fiber bundle 36, at a distance 4f from the surface of the output coupler 38 and at a distance 4f/3 from the face of the bar 30 forming one end of the laser cavity 34.
- FIG. 3 Those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize the geometry disclosed in FIG. 3 as an end-pumped cavity geometry, but such persons will immediately recognize that the arrangement disclosed with respect to FIG. 3 could easily be used for side pumping a laser cavity with minimal and trivial rearrangement.
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- Ein Lasersystem, welches aufweist:eine Laserdiodenleiste (10) mit einer Mehrzahl von Emitterbereichen bzw. -zonen, von denen jeder eine Ausgangsfassette aufweist, wobei die besagte Diodenleiste (10) einen Ausgang in einer Richtung hoher numerischer Apertur und einer Richtung niedriger numerischer Apertur aufweist;eine Mikrolinse (26) mit einer geometrischen Achse, welche im wesentlichen senkrecht zu der Emissionsbahn der Strahlung von den Emitterbereichen bzw. -zonen ist; undeine Mehrzahl von optischen Fasern (18, 20, 22), welche gleich der Anzahl von Emitterbereichen bzw. -zonen der Laserdiodenleiste (10) ist, die gleichachsig in Bezug auf die besagte Emissionsbahn orientiert sind und einen Abstand haben, welcher auf den Abstand bzw. die Teilung des Emitterbereichs auf der Diodenleiste angepasst ist, wobei die numerische Apertur jeder Faser im wesentlichen gleich zu derjenigen von jedem Diodenleistenemitter in der Richtung niedriger numerischer Apertur ist,
- Das Lasersystem gemäß Anspruch 1, in welchem die Divergenz des Ausgangs der Laserdiodenleiste (10) in ihrer Richtung hoher numerischer Apertur durch die Mikrolinse (26) reduziert wird.
- Das Lasersystem gemäß Anspruch 1 oder 2, in welchem der Ausgang der Laserdiodenleiste (10) in ihrer Richtung hoher numerischer Apertur durch die Mikrolinse (26) parallel gerichtet bzw. kollimatiert wird.
- Das Lasersystem gemäß Anspruch 1, 2 oder 3, in dem die Ausgangsfassetten der Emitterbereiche bzw. -zonen von der besagten Mikrolinse (26) durch ungefähr eine Brennweite der Richtung hoher numerischer Apertur der Mikrolinse (26) beabstandet sind.
- Das Lasersystem gemäß Anspruch 1, 2, 3 oder 4, worin die Mikrolinse (26) eine im wesentlichen runde Geometrie im Querschnitt besitzt.
- Das Lasersystem nach Anspruch 1, 2, 3 oder 4, in dem die Mikrolinse (26) einen nicht-runden Querschnitt besitzt, wobei der Querschnitt so gewählt ist, dass er eine gewünschte optische Modifikation für den Ausgang der Diodenleiste (10) in ihrer Richtung hoher numerischer Apertur schafft.
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